Brian Etling
is an intern for The Millions. He reads and resides in North Carolina. Brian can be found on Twitter @jbetling, and in the real world behind the counter of Scuppernong Books in Greensboro, NC.

There is good news for those of us whose dreams of artistic superstardom don't seem to be panning out -- a job listing from McSweeney'sseeking failed artists for an associate position. "We would hate for you to be pretentious," the listing states, "but if you don’t regularly call other people pretentious — this might not be the job for you."

This week, the Ransom Center at UT-Austin opened up its archives of the works of J.M. Coetzee. Because the Nobel Prize winner is an alumnus, he says it’s “a privilege to have graduated from being a teaching assistant at The University of Texas to being one of the authors whose papers are conserved here.” (Fun fact: his starting salary was $2,300 a year.)